Battalion
Number 61: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1955
Price 5 Cents
BARE FEET AND BOWS—A gay moment in Fred Wait
ing’s “Pleasure Time 1955” is the production of the folk
i .song “Barefoot.” Dancing in nature’s “shoes” are Dee
[ Harless and Jack Best in the foreground, and Eddie Erick-
Waring To Draw
Big Crowd Tonight
son, Preshy Stone, Hugh Fleming and Carol Kelsey, all of
whom participate in the folk song sequence. The show
will be presented in the Town flail series at 8 tonight in
Rollie White coliseum.
A crowd of 6,000-6,500 pei’spns
Iwil Ibe on hand at 8 tonight to see
I Fred Waring’s musical production
■ “Pleasure Time 1955,” said C. G.
I (Spike) White, director of student
I activities.
We’re expecting even a larger
I crowd than we had at Town Hall
I when the Champions were here, he
I added.
The Pennsylvanians will present
^ a colorful old-time minstrel as one
I of the sequences in their new show.
Admission to the show will be
1 by season ticket or individual tick-
I ets which are $2 for adults and $1
j for children.
Two newcomers to the Fred War-
ing’s organization are contralto
I Dee Harless and Carol Kelsey,
l^iss Harless is a native of Illinois
and is one of the outstanding per
formers introduced this season.
Miss Kelsey, 23-year-old New Jer-
}4*yite, is a graduate of the Lam-
bertsville Music circus, a promin-
>nt eastei-n musical stock company.
“It’s these youngsters among
ns,” Waring said, “with their
energy and endless ideas, that help
Election To Fill
Senate Vacancies
Three vacancies in the Student
Senate will be filled at an election
to be held Feb. 15, according to
Dave Lane, student election com
mittee chairman.
The vacancies are the class of
’56, Mitchell hall and Law hall.
Filings for the positions in the
student activities office will close
at noon Saturday. Candidates must
have a one-point grade point ratio
and have attended the school for
the last two semesters, and Mitchell
and Law hall candidates must live
in the respective dorimtories that
are to be represented.
Election for the Law hall senator
^'ill be held from 5 to 6 p.m. in the
lounge of Puryear hall. Mitchell
hill election booth wall 'be on the
second floor of Mitchell hall, and
the election will be held from 5 to
6 p.m. The election for the class
of ’56 will be held from 3 to 6
p.m. at the entrance to the post
office in the Memorial Student
Center.
Johnson Speaks
Maj. H. O. Johnson jr., air sci
ence instructor, spoke to the 9807th
air reserve squadron Monday night
on the air force ROTC curriculum.
Approximately 40 members of the
squadron were present.
make us thrilled about our new
show.”
The show runs from moments of
light music to religious and patri
otic choi-al music. Elaborate light
ing effects, complete stage scenery,
eoloiTul costumes and other the
atrical devices will supplement the
musical talent of the Pennsylvan
ians.
The group will arrive at the Me
morial Student Center at 2 p.m.
today and will be welcomed by
members of the Singing Cadets,
White said.
Small Shot
Could Bring
Large Fine
Youngsters who want to
practice their marksmanship
in the city limits have been
the subject of several com
plaints to the city hall recent
ly-
According to City Manager
Ran Boswell, an ordinance was
passed in 1950 prohibiting,
among other things, . “air
rifles, B. B. guns, or other
mechanism that discharges or
ejects any bullet, buckshot, or
any other metallic object of
any size by foi’ce or combust
ion, mechanism or air.”
Violators may be punished
by a fine of not less than $5
or more than $50. Boswell said
no- one had been charged so
far.
Aero Director
Speaks Thursday
Cliff Green, state director of
aeronautics, will speak at a meet
ing of the Brazos County Aviation
association at 8 p.m. Thursday in
the council room of the city hnli.
He will speak on the progress
and future of the Texas Aeronau
tics commission.
Green, who did graduate work at
A&M and is a former columnist
for the Temi4^ Daily Telegram,
holds all CAA and air force flight
ratings.
He is also coordinator of civil
air mobilization for the st**te civil
defense and disaster relief organ
ization.
The public, and A&M students
in particular, are invited to the
meeting, said Jack McBride, presi
dent of the association.
News of the World
Ike Says America
Will Remain Alert
WASHINGTON, <A>)_President
Eisenhower declarecf Wednesday
America will remain alert and con
tinue to pursue peace thi’ough
strength in the face of a Soviet
shakeup he interpreted as an ex
pression of internal “dissatisfac
tion.”
In a spur-of-the-moment reply to
a news conference query, Eisen
hower also said he would not hesi
tate to consult his advisors—“if we
found it desirable”—on the ques
tion of inviting his old friend, Sov
iet Marshal Georgi Zhukov, to vis
it the United States.
What the top-level reshuffling in
Moscow means to the world, the
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By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON—India’s Premier Neh
ru appealed yesterday to Red Chi
na to hold off on any attempt to
invade Formosa. Nehru told a
news conference India and the
great powers, including Russia, are
exchanging ideas on how to end
China fighting. Among these is
a suggestion for a Geneva-type
conference outside the United Na
tions. “But there is nothing def
inite,” he added.
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SAN ANGELO —Dist. Atty.
Aubrey T. Stokes said yesterday
a former convict has made a
written statement saying he pur
chased dynamite for Harry
Washburn, charged in the car-
bomb slaying of Mrs. Harry E.
Weaver.
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WASHINGTON—The Senate, by
the overwhelming vote of 64-6
yesterday ratified the Formosa de
fense treaty. The pact, signed
with the Chinese Nationalist re
gime of Chiang Kai-shek, commits
the United States to defend For
mosa, Chiang’s bastion, and the
nearby Pescadores, against the
Chinese Reds.
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TACHEN—A Navy Skyraider
was shot out of the air yester
day by Communist anti-aircraft
fire but its crew of three was
quickly picked up four miles west
of the Tachens.
Weather Today
President said, “won’t be appai'ent
for some time.” He said it does
n’t necessarily signify a tougher
policy toward the United States,
since the Russians “would say any
thing that would suit their pur
poses at the moment of a great
significant change of this kind in
their government.”
• Nor, he said, is there any proof
that Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov was right in claiming that
this country now is the laggard in
atomic weapons as a result of Rus
sian success in developing the hy
drogen bomb.
Tuesday’s realignment at the
Kremlin brought the resignation
of Premier Georgi Malenkov and
his replacement by Defense Min
ister Nikolai Bulganin, an advocate
of building up heavy industry that
is the basis for war production.
Wednesday, Marshal Zhukov, with
whom Eisenhower established
friendly relations in Berlin at the
close of World War II, was named
to Bulganin’s former post as de
fense minister.
Under questioning, Eisenhower
noted that heand Zhukov “devel
oped personally a practice of get
ting along and seeing eye to eye”
on local problems in Berlin back
in 1945. He said this was an ef
fort to set a pattern for showing
that “two nations could get along
if they would both recognize the
folly of not getting along.”
When a reporter remarked that
Zhukov has been quoted as saying
Eisenhower twice invited the Mar
shal to visit the United States and
that Zhukov still dreams of doing
so, the President said the invita
tions were at the direction of the
United States government.
A&M WILL HOST
EISA S A T U R D A Y
Executive Council
To Plan Convention
More than 130 students from 35 Texas colleges will gath
er at A&M Saturday morning for a meeting of the Executive
council of the Texas Intercollegiate Students association.
The TISA, with membership from all major colleges in
the state, is an organization devoted to improving better
relations between schools and providing aid on mutual prob
lems.
This Executive council session, which A&M’s Student
Senate is sponsoring, will be to plan the organization’s annual
convention, to be held at Trinity university in April.
The delegates will register from 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday,
and then will have a business session at noon.
* President David H. Morgan
will greet the delegates at a
luncheon business session.
All meetings and the lunch
eon will be in the Memorial
Student Center.
Bill Bass is chairman of the Stu
dent Senate’s TISA committee,
which made all the arrangements
for this meeting. Other members
of the committee are John De-
Wald, Paul Holladay, and B. A.
(Scotty) Parham.
Jerry Ramsey is president of the
Student Senate, and will be foi*mal
host for the meeting.
This is the first time an Execu
tive council session has been held
at A&M. The Executive council
meets twice a year.
A&M was one of the charter
members of the TISA, and one of
the groups first annual conventions
was held here.
Staff, Student
Leaders Hosts
To RE Speaker
The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines
was the guest of faculty and
student leaders at an infor
mal get-acquainted luncheon
held yesterday in the Memor-
rial Student Center.
Hines, scheduled to be principal
speaker during Religious Emphasis
week Feb. 20-25 in Guion hall, met
with David H. Morgan, president;
J. P. Abbott, dean of the college;
W. L. Penberthy, head of student
activities; Frank Ford, cadet corps
commander; John Jones, Civilian
Student council pi*esident; Jerry
Ramsey, Student Senate president;
Theo Lindig, Interfaith Council
chairman; Conrad Cummings, corps
chaplain; Garrett Maxwell, Y Cab
inet president and Harri Baker,
Battalion co-editor.
No classes will be held during the
hours Hines gives his daily talks in
Guion hall. The talks during RE
week are scheduled for 11 a.m.
Monday, 10-11 a.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday and 9-10 a.m. Thursday
and Friday.
Other speakers scheduled include
Dr. Ellis Nelson, professor in the
Presbyterian Theological seminary
in Austin, who will meet with the
faculty each evening in the biologi
cal sciences lecture room, and Dr.
A- L. Porterfield, head of the de
partment of sociology at Texas
Christian university, who will lead
the married students forum and
discussion groups in the YMCA
chapel each evening.
Other speakers and the dormito
ries to which they are assigned are
Rabbi Yonah H. Geller, dormitory
9; Rev. Ross C. Coggins, dormitory
H; Dr. Sterling L. Price, dormito
ries 2 and 4; Maj. Harry A. Mc-
Knight, dormitories 6 and 8; Rev.
Albert J. Ettling, dormitory 15
and A Ordnance of dormitory 17;
Rev. John G. Marvin, dormitories
1 and 3; Dr. Dallas H. Smith, dor
mitories 10 and 12; Rev. Robert
Rreihan, Walton hall; Col. James
C. Bean, dormitories 5 and 7; Clif
ton Rogers, dormitory 16; Rev. L.
A. Richardson, Hart hall; Rev.
Lloyd T. Watson, Puryear, Law
and Mitchell halls; Rev. Charles
W- Williams, Leggett and Milner
halls; Rev. Louis Hahn, S.J., who
will hold Mass and meditation in
the MSC.
Interracial Leader
To Speak Here Friday
Lincoln Maynard Catchings, in
terracial and intercultural secreta
ry for the national YMCA, will
speak here at 7:30 p.m. Friday at
the YMCA.
Catchings’ talk, which will be on
his interracial work, will be spon
sored by the United Nations club.
Everyone is invited to the meeting,
said James Caffey, secretary of the
club.
A native of Houston and a grad-
The weather outlook for today
is cloudy with light rain drizzles
throughout the day. High winds
with limited risibility and a low of
26 tonight also have been predic- | uate of Prairie View A&M college,
ted. Catching has done graduate work
Yesterday’s high was 69, low 43. in sociology and religion at How’-
The temperature at 10:45 this ard university and the L T niversity
morning was 57. | of Chicago. He has taught at
Fisk university and served as asso
ciate director of the Christian In
ternational Work camp in France.
Since 1947 Catchings has been
pastor of the Plymouth Congrega
tional church in W’ashington, D. C.
Lily Begins
Impounding
Uhtagged Dogs
Unlicensed dogs in College
Station are being picked up,
said Ran Boswell, city man
ager, and as of yesterday, sev
en dogs had been impounded.
An ordinance passed in May,
1940; prescribes the conditions un
der which dogs are allowed in the
city.
The first section of the ordinance
says that “no person shall allow a
dog owned by him or in his care to
run at large within the city unless
a license for such dog has been
secured and is in effect, unless such
dog is effectively immunized
against rabies, and unless evidence
of both such license and immuniza
tion are indicated by a tag or tags,
provided by or under the direction
of the city, attached to a collar
'worn by the dog.”
The license for the dog may be
bought at the city hall for $1 upon
showing a certificate from a li
censed veterinarian that the dog
has been given rabies shots recent
ly enough to cover the period for
which the license is to be effective.
So far 186 licenses have been
bought this year compared to 380
last year.
Any dog picked up by the city
may be recovered by its owner
within 48 hours. A fee of $2.50
will be charged.
News Briefs
THE FOURTH 40-hour course for safety supervisors
will be held here Feb. 14-18. Purpose of the course is to
train safety supervisors in organizing and conducting an ef
fective program of accident prevention.
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THE INDUSTRIAL Plant Protection school is being held
on the campus. It is sponsored by the Texas Engineering
Extension service.
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SECOND LT. Benjamin Moore, an A&M former student,
has graduated from the army’s Transportation school at Fort
Eustis, Va. His home is Houston.
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MRS. LEON B. WEISS of College Station was among
Texas retailers who attended a three-day fashion show at
the San Antonio Spring Dry Goods and Apparel market.
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HAROLD FRANK ’54, an A&M former student, has
graduated from the Infantry school’s basic officers course
at Fort Benning, Ga. A resident of Lampasas, he is a sec
ond lieutenant.
Senior Class
To Meet Monday
The senior class will meet Mon
day night at 7:15 in the Memorial
Student Center ballroom, accord
ing to Conrad Cummings, class
president.
The Senior Ring dance, a report
from the traditions committee, gift
committee and the class project
committee will be on the agenda.
Chemistry Student
To Receive Award
The chemistry department will
award a Handbook of Chemistry
and Physics next week to the stu
dent who has demonstrated the
greatest progress in chemistry 101.
Selection of the student will be
made by a faculty committee over
the weekend, with a presentation
sometime next week.
The award is not necessarily for
the student making the highest
grade, but for the student who has
shown the greatest achievement in
the course.
CS Lions Club
Schedules Circus
College Station Lions club will
In Washington, he has been a phil- sponsor Hagen Brothers’ three-
osophy instructor at Howard uni- ring circus here March 28, said
versity, chairman of the Commis- Capt. Albert Sparks, club publicity
sion on Community Life of the | chairman.
on
Washington Federation of
Churches and a member of the
District of Columbia Board of Pub
lic Welfare.
He is also a member of the Con-
The circus will be held jusc south
of the traffic circle on Sulphur
Springs Rd. on property donated
by J. C. Culpepper, Bryan real es
tate man. Admission will be $1.80
gregationalist’s National Advisory I for adults, and 50 cents for chil-
Council on Race Relations. j dren.
Fish Sweetheart
Deadline Nears
Freshmen who wish to enter
their girl friend’s picture in the
Freshman ball sweetheart contest
should turn the pictures in at stu
dent activities office in Goodwin
hall before Feb. 24, according to
Don Elledge, class president.
Students should fill out blanks
provided by the office, and pictures
do not have to be of any specific
size, said Elledge.
The dance will be March 5 in
Sbisa Hall. Final plans are being
made by the committees, which will
meet again Feb. 14.
Chairmen for the committees are
as follows: program and guests,
Jim Gatlin and John Dosier; dance,
Ed Cashman; tickets and finance,
Ted Lowe and Don McGinney;
sweetheart, Elledge; and decora
tions, Larry Van Doozer and Larry
Martin.
Petroleum Group
Plan Open House
The Petroleum Engineering club
will have its annual open house for
freshman petroleum engineering
students at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the
petroleum engineering building.
R. L. Whiting, head of the de
partment, and department faculty
members will speak and a film on
the oil industry will be shown.
The open house is held each year
to acquaint new' students with the
department, since freshman and
sophomore petroleum engineering
majors do not take courses in the
department, said Charlie Seely,